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Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:18:49 PDT7
From:	<blairra@tstonramp.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Warning: Trolling for Dollars, Scammers hard at work

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** Reply to message from "J. R. Fox" on Mon, 14 Jul 2003
21:31:17 PDT7

> Within the past 10 days, I have received two
> similar scams via email, one purportedly from my ISP, the other purportedly
> from Ebay. Superficially, they looked legit: official looking notes from
> supposed staff at each, claiming that my account info was not up to date, and I
> must click on the enclosed link, taking me to a page at their site where official
> looking forms had to be filled out.

I am surprised you have not seen one of these before, they have been around for
several years.

I tell everyone (mostly newbies that ask) that they should never click any of
those links. There is no valid reason to click them. If they are real they
would ask you to sign-on to your account and do the updates, not give you a
link to click. So the moral of this is if you get anything you think may need
attention never click a URL in an email but go to where ever you normally go to
log-in.

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